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Monday, 16 January 2017

Do you Know God's Will for your Life?

In church recently, the pastor mentioned how we as individuals often ask what is God's will for our lives. This was not the theme of the service but the following scripture and the pastor's breakdown of it has been floating around in my brain and spirit for days now... I kind of love it!

1 Thess 5 v 16-18:(16)Rejoicealways and delight in your faith; (17) be unceasing and persistent in prayer; (18) in every situation [no matter what the circumstances] be thankful and continuallygive thanks to God; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.(underlining, italics and bold print all my additions for empasis)
God's will for us is:

rejoice always

delight in your faith

pray unceasingly and persistently

be thankful in EVERY situation, and

continually give thanks

It really is that simple.

Its when doing the above that God is able to speak into our hearts, work in our hearts and minds and lead and guide us. Proverbs 16 v 3 speaks on this: Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.

(underlining, italics and bold print all my additions for empasis)
This post is short and sweet. But it leaves much thinking to be done and I feel, relieves one of trying to figure out what God's will is for us. His word says, rejoice, pray, be thankful, persistently, always, in all situations, this is His will for us, and in doing so, He guides us to line our thinking up with His. No pressure on us to figure it out! Be encouraged by this!
God bless
Tracy

5 comments:

Love this post! My Mother in Law is doing a lot of soul searching and making changes and she's been doing the study Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby! she said its life changing in finding His will. :) Thanks for sharing you encouraged my heart this morning!

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